DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for New York Residents

Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by hapless on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:32AM (#22253650)

The real story here is that this is a punishment for NYS issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. The Trump administration is angry that undocumented persons might have driver's licenses, and yet, that info might not be passed to ICE for no-knock raids and other "fun."

The state has important interests at stake: driver's exams, insurance, eye tests, etc. The law was passed for very basic nuts-and-bolts purposes, not to defend some starry-eyed vision of open borders.

It is better for NYS and the residents of NYS if illegal immigrants participate in driver licensing the same way as people with other federal statuses. Licensing illegal and undocumented immigrants upholds public order and keeps the roads safer.

The Trump administration now wishes to mine NY DMV records in order to make ICE actions easier, and the state declines to assist them.

This is the result of thwarting Trump's pets in the executive branch: cheap and stupid revenge.

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Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by Analemma_ on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:52AM (#22253728)

I have no love for the Trump administration or its immigration policy, but the Real ID Act was passed in 2005 and the TSA announced compliance deadlines in 2013.

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Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by hapless on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:56AM (#22254019)

This isn’t a REAL ID matter. REAL ID is orthogonal.

NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive branch.

Notably, for Global Entry, you already need a passport - which supersedes the ID value of your state DL in every imaginable way

No NYS applicant is asking the federal government to rely on a drivers license. The government has just chosen to tie other things to the drivers license to further their own private tantrums

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Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by asveikau on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:39AM (#22253931)

I remember real ID being called controversial in 2005. I wonder if that might have something to do with the fact that it took them ~15 years before somebody said "yes, we're really doing it this year".

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Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by hapless on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:34AM (#22255812)

REAL ID is the exact kind of thing Americans used to mock in the Soviet Union.

“Papers, please”

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Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by nitrogen on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:04AM (#22254055)

What turned the tide on states' acceptance of RealID?

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Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ... by URSpider94 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:30AM (#22254193)

Most likely, the Federal government sticking to its deadline on barring acceptance of non-REAL licenses for air travel ...

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